12.04 Installer crashed

[Ray Strilec]

Installer crashed far into the install. Virtualbox install with 2048 ram, 10gb vdi disk, opted to install updates during installation and 3rd party software, erase and use entire disk.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.9.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.5-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.292
Date: Mon Dec 19 12:18:14 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 19 17:11:49 ubuntu ubiquity: Error in function:
Dec 19 17:11:49 ubuntu plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Dec 19 17:11:49 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 850264, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Ray Strilec (rstrilec)]

**I don't believe it is a duplicate of 850264. I was installing amd64
version in Virtualbox on an 64bit machine, there was no foreign
architecture here. On a second attempt I did not opt for installing
updates or 3rd party software and the install was successful with no
apparent errors. Of course I can't say for certain that is what the
error was on the first attempt but it is the only thing I did differently.

On 12/19/2011 08:55 PM, Ubuntu Foundation's Bug Bot wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 850264 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850264
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
> duplicate of bug 850264, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
> the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
> can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
> Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in
> the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may
> find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 850264
> given a foreign architecture of i386 on amd64 machine, and an outdated libc, apt tries to remove libc-bin
>

[Bug Reporter 11 (bugreporter11)]

I too have seen this bug without the "foreign architecture" situation. I don't believe it is a duplicate of 850264.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.